After about a week of this, one night, she came home, stormed upstairs, and asked, "Why do you get the bed?
One stay-at-home storm chaser got quite the shock while filming a thunderstorm from inside their home.
The result, he said, was that "our leaders and youths were killed, our offices — and even our homes — stormed, ransacked, burned and totally destroyed — not to mention the insults and obscenities we had to suffer".
Shortly after Mr. Bressette arrived home, the storm hit, knocking out a picture window.
Last Christmas Eve, I drove around the hills of home, shooting storm houses with my iPhone.
"Many banks are now requiring a 'final inspection' by the appraiser to inspect the home for storm damage before closing," she said in an e-mail.
But that doesn't change the fact that everybody who left was going to have to come home to storm damage and, of course, to the ravages of looters.
Outside the placid confines of the shelter home, the storm is still raging.
By the time you get back in your car to head home, the storm has stopped, a rainbow formed, and "Don't Stop Believing" has just kicked in.
Wave heights from the hurricane reached 20 feet (6 m) along coastline portions of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which washed away 2 homes; the storm surge destroyed 19 homes and damaged 40 more.
